The Dominance Of National Security-an Analysis Of The George W. Bush Administration's Global Energy Strategy

This thesis has adopted a realist approach to the analysis of America's energy strategy under the Bush administration. By examining closely the global context of America's energy strategy, policy legacies left from previous administrations, international and domestic forces affecting the formulation and implementation of the strategy, the Bush administration's energy initiatives, and making a case study of the war on Iraq, the author arrives at the conclusion that the principal objective of Bush administration's energy strategy was to secure its energy supply, and to preserve the status of the U.S. dollar as the dominant currency in which oil is priced so as to maximize its national security, as defined by power and interests. This fits exactly the realist explanation of State's behavior.